Informationen zum Autor Kate Morton grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland and now lives with her family in Australia. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels. Kate has sold over ten million copies of her novels in thirty-two languages, across thirty-nine countries. The House at Riverton , The Forgotten Garden , The Distant Hours , The Secret Keeper and The Lake House have all been number one bestsellers around the world. Klappentext A long-ago tragedy resurfaces in The House at Riverton , the haunting and multi-million copy bestselling debut novel from Kate Morton, presented in a beautiful new edition. Zusammenfassung Discover Kate Morton's multi-million copy bestselling debut novel, The House at Riverton , a mesmerising story of tragedy and buried secrets, with this new edition. Winner of the Richard and Judy Book Club Best Read of the Year Summer, 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter, 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken, and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten, but Grace never could . . .

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A new edition of Kate Morton's bestselling debut novel.

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A long-ago tragedy resurfaces in The House at Riverton, the haunting and multi-million copy bestselling debut novel from Kate Morton, presented in a beautiful new edition.